From F.C. Baur to Ernst Troeltsch

Comprehensive treatment of major nineteenth-century figures and developments

Links the development of systematic and historical theology during the nineteenth-century

Adds a theological voice to current nineteenth-century and German Studies

This study describes the origin, development and crisis of the German nineteenth-century project of theology as science. Its narrative is focused on the two predominant theological schools during this period, the Tübingen School and the Ritschl School. Their work emerges as a grand attempt to synthesize historical and systematic theology within the twin paradigms of historicism and German Idealism. Engaging in detail with the theological, historical and philosophical scholarship of the story's protagonists, Johannes Zachhuber reconstructs the
basis of this scholarship as a deep belief in the eventual unity of human knowledge. This idealism clashed with the historicist principles underlying much of the scholars' actual research. The tension between these paradigms ran through the entire period and ultimately led to the disintegration of the project at the end of the century.

Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, many of which have never been used in English speaking scholarship before, Zachhuber embeds the essentially theological story he presents within broader intellectual developments in nineteenth century Germany. In spite of its eventual failure, the project of theology as science in nineteenth
century Germany is here described as a paradigmatic intellectual endeavour of European modernity with far-reaching significance beyond the confines of a single academic discipline.

Readership: Students and scholars of Theology; of religious studies; of nineteenth-century German intellectual history

Johannes Zachhuber, Reader of Theology, Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford

"This book deserves to be taken seriously by all who are concerned not only for the history but also for the future of theology as an academic discipline. It admirably exemplifies the virtues it commends." - George Pattison, University of Glasgow

1: IntroductionI: Ferdinand Christian Baur and the Tübingen School
2: F.C. Baur s two Programmes of Scientific Theology
3: The Origin of the two Programmes
4: A Science without Presuppositions: David Strauss
5: Debating the Nature of Religion: Eduard Zeller
6: A Manifesto of Tübingen Orthodoxy: Adolf HilgenfeldII: Albrecht Ritschl and the Ritschl School
7: Albrecht Ritschl on Theology as Science
8: Philosophical Insights and Influences
9: The Kingdom of God
10: The End of the Idealist Programme
Conclusion
Bibliography

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